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How our DNA differs from that of Denisovans, our extinct cousins
LA Times ^ | 9-1-12 | Rosie Mestel

Posted on 09/01/2012 5:42:46 AM PDT by Pharmboy

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To: Pharmboy

Therefore evolution must provide an explanation which provides a description of specific genetic changes and the morphological changes which correspond with each of them.


41 posted on 09/01/2012 2:42:55 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: SunkenCiv

Number of chromosome pairs is irrelevant to quantity of genetic material passed from one generation to the next. Meiosis and fertilization are important events to understand here.

You get exactly half (on average) of each parent’s genetic material. The same thing happened to them from their parents, which means you have exactly one fourth (on average) of genetic material from each grandparent.

As for speciation—if it doesn’t exist, there can be no such thing as descent with modification and evolution is therefore only a figment of our imaginations.


42 posted on 09/02/2012 10:00:05 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: kindred

Science is not about truth. It is about proof.

Religion is about truth.

Never the twain shall meet.


43 posted on 09/03/2012 4:04:10 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: SatinDoll

I think this is a false categorization of religion and science.

For example, are your comments religious or scientific? Are they true?

Is it not true to say that force equals mass times acceleration?

And where does philosophy fit in? Logic, which deals with proof, is central to philosophy. But nobody would say philosophy isn’t about truth.


44 posted on 09/04/2012 6:03:00 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: Lazamataz; Pharmboy

Outstanding! Very creative way of injecting a babe into a science thread!


45 posted on 09/05/2012 12:57:41 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

She blinded me.

With science.


46 posted on 09/05/2012 4:05:27 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Communist Party = Democrats. Socialist Party = Republicans. WE NEED A CAPITALIST FREEDOM PARTY!)
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To: reasonisfaith

No, evolution continues all the time, because it is change, period. Speciation is merely a subset of that change. The rest of your post is a figment of your imagination.


47 posted on 09/08/2012 7:01:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Darwinian evolution can happen even if speciation is impossible?


48 posted on 09/08/2012 7:44:56 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: reasonisfaith

Since you brought it up, you can answer your own question. You’re just a slippery eel and a troll, and I’ll waste no further time with you.


49 posted on 09/08/2012 8:04:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Leaving the personal attacks to those who don’t really believe their own arguments, let’s you and I review just how evolution can occur if no single species can change into another, ever.


50 posted on 09/08/2012 8:11:37 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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